Announcement: The Sun Inside

[snurri]

So here's some good news I've been sitting on for a while: my novella "The Sun Inside" is going to be the first release from the Electrum Novella Series, done by the good people of Rabid Transit Press (formerly Velocity Press). I can tell you this now because pre-ordering is live (via PayPal). That's right, for the low, low, price of $9 you can have a slick, perfect-bound book with roughly 18,000 words all guaranteed written by me. It comes out in late May, and if you're going to be at WisCon, you can reserve a copy to be picked up there. Perfect for people who like words!

Seriously, I'm very excited about this, for a couple of reasons. First, because I'm very proud of this novella. I'm not going to say too much about what it's about, because there are some surprises in it that we want to let the readers discover. (You can find out a little bit at the ordering link, above.) I can tell you that it contains (among other things): Internet dating, psychic powers, hidden worlds, zeppelins, hyenadaons, and the Iraq war. One thing I'm always trying to do with my stuff is to marry the holy-gosh-wow feel of pulp genre stuff to real-world concerns, and I think "The Sun Inside" may be one of my best efforts in that regard.

The second reason I'm excited about this is that I love what Rabid Transit Press is doing here; novella-friendly markets are few and far between, and I love the idea of a long-running series of them, published individually. I believe their plan is to do two a year, for now, and I'm already picturing them lined up on my shelf in a few years. Little packages of awesome. (If I do say so myself.) I'm excited to see where they'll take this, and I'm so very pleased to be in on the ground floor.

Comments

[haddayr.livejournal.com]

woohoo

[smokingpigeon.livejournal.com]

Snurr, baby, who loves ya? Would I lie to you? Listen, ya gotta tell us something about what's in it. If your nearest and dearest said to you, "shut your eyes and open your mouth," would you say Aahh before finding out what it was, at least ballpark? Am I gonna bite down on sushi or chocolate?

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Hm, fair enough; it's just not that easy to explain without giving a large chunk of the story away. But I've edited the post to add this:

I can tell you that it contains (among other things): Internet dating, psychic powers, hidden worlds, zeppelins, hyenadaons, and the Iraq war.

Does that help?

[dxmachina.livejournal.com]

Pre-ordered.

Rabid Transit doesn't seem to give the option for selecting a shipping address if you have more than one associated with your Paypal account. They just grab the default, which in my case is the more inconvenient of the two possibilities I have. (Of course, I wasn't paying attention, either, so I didn't notice until I'd already hit "submit.")

[snurri.livejournal.com]

If you were to email them (electrumeditors AT gmail DOT com), I'm sure they'd be happy to ship to your other address.

And thank you so much for ordering!!

Awesome

[colonelrowe.livejournal.com]

Hey, I hadn't even heard about the series. That's great! Both that you've written the first one and that there will be others by others!

Re: Awesome

[snurri.livejournal.com]

You oughta send 'em something!

[wheatland-press.livejournal.com]

That is very cool. I keep thinking about doing a novella series myself...and then I talk myself out of it. But one of these days I'm going to convince myself.

If y'all would like to put a stack on the WP table at Wiscon I would be happy to sell them.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

I keep thinking about doing a novella series myself

You oughta! Although you do publish novellas in Polyphony, right? Or are they maybe just really long short stories?

And thanks for the offer; I'll let the Rabid Transit folks know. I think they usually sell their stuff at the Small Beer table, but if you'd be willing to help us double our coverage that would be great!

[wheatland-press.livejournal.com]

I do often have novellas (or close to) in Polyphony. And I did Forrest's Swans Over the Moon. And I'm doing the Waldrop novellas this summer The Moone World...

I guess what I haven't done is to make it open subs (fearing the loss of personal bandwidth) or settled on a regular payment or format such that it becomes a regular series.

When you said "lined up on the shelf" that's what I've been picturing. In fact, a long time ago I toyed with the idea of doing the Novella of the Month Club, but like many of my ideas it looked like a sure way to raise the amount of money I can lose almost geometrically.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm not sure what the plan is for Electrum, but I'm picturing it sort of like the 33 1/3 books, or the Small Beer Peapod Classics line. Which might not be what they're planning at all, but.

And yeah: it would be easy to sink a lot of money into that, with no guarantee of a decent return. Sigh . . .

[wheatland-press.livejournal.com]

*But* when I hit the lotto...watch for guidelines!

:)

[justinhowe.livejournal.com]

Very cool. I look forward to reading it. I remember Leigh Brackett talking about the 20,000 word novel in one of her introductions... ahhh, those must have been the days.

Congratulations.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

There have to be a lot of writers who would love to see the return of things like the Ace Doubles . . . not sure if there are enough readers, but I'd like to think so.

And thanks!!

[rsheslin.livejournal.com]

W00t! Sounds nifty! I've always wanted to meet a hyenadaons.

[rsheslin.livejournal.com]

(I thought I'd deleted the pluralizing "s" at the end. Oh, well.)

[snurri.livejournal.com]

There are even more things than hyenadons, but I am keeping them sekrit. :-)

[rudi.livejournal.com]

Dude, you had me at hyenadons :)

(Actually, you had be before that -- I came back from ordering before I saw the details of the cool stuff inside.)

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Yay! Well, dude, we are totally each other's audiences :-)

[stephanieburgis.livejournal.com]

Woot! Congratulations! That is really cool.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Steph! I'm excited. (Oh, and I like the new haircut!!)

[stephanieburgis.livejournal.com]

And thank you! :)

[the-flea-king.livejournal.com]

SOLD.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[dsgood.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Thank you most kindly :-)

[mastadge.livejournal.com]

Ordered. Yay.

So does this go before or after Superpowers on my bookcase? Oh, decisions!

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Hee! I think I'll file that under "problems I wish more people had."

[matthewsrotundo.livejournal.com]

Belated but no less sincere congrats!

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Matt! And congrats again on the WOTF win!!!!

[matthewsrotundo.livejournal.com]

Thanks again. Too kind.